history

Provides an introduction to hurricanes, including details of their destructive forces and their historical background.

Presents the history of the Olympic games from ancient Greece to the present.

Presents the history of weapons and armor through the ages. Describes the design, construction and workings of various weapons, and discusses how methods of warfare have changed.

Entries provide in-depth historical background information on each movement as well as modern critical interpretation of each movement's characteristic styles and themes.

Provides an introduction to a variety of inventions, both ancient and modern, that have changed the world.

During World War II, a young Jewish boy escapes his home in the ghetto after the Nazis invade, and eventually joins a resistance group in the forests of Poland.

Explains the history of home economics by sharing the lives of the women who set forth the trail and the racism within the movement.

Presents the stories of five women air pilots; Florence Klingensmith, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, and Louise Thaden, and their fight for the chance to race against men in the air races of the 1920s and 1930s.

Provides an insider account with unprecedented access to Deion Sanders and his athletes, over the course of a near-perfect college football season with Jackson State.

"A sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX"--Provided by publisher.